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Justice can not be served until the debate on capital punishment is
resolved and all states have come to agree that the death penalty is the
best way to stop crime completely.  
"The bottom line is, one method of execution is just as brutal and
as barbaric as the next," says Mr. Breedlove of the National Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty.   This comes straight from the mouth of a member
of a national organization against capital punishment.   The American
Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition defines
execution as The act or an instance of putting to death or being put to
death as a lawful penalty.   So if Breedlove’s words hold true, then what
he believes is that someone going out and killing someone is barbaric.   In
a sense isn’t that what he’s saying, that one way of killing someone is
just as bad as any other.   So if he finds this so barbaric, why doesn’t he
do something about it?
Many people who are against capital punishment are only thinking
of the criminal and how cruel it is for them.   But, shouldn’t we think of
the families that are broken apart now because of the merciless acts of
these criminals.   Think of Susan Smith, how she knowingly drove her car
off into a lake with her two children strapped to the seats.   Think of how
they must have felt as the cold water started to fill the cabin of the
car, and then ultimately drown them.   Barbaric is exactly the word I would
use to describe her actions.   But yet, the jury rejected the death penalty
and chose a life sentence instead.   Mr. Smith, the father of the two
children, broken up from the ruling said "Me and my family are
disappointed that the death penalty was not the verdict, but it wasn’t our
choice.   They returned a verdict they thought was justice" (Bragg, pg.
1+).
But was it justice that she was not put to death for killing her
two children.   How could someone possibly let her off the hook of such a
crime....